How To Create Colorful Twirl Effects In Photoshop

Quickly convert an ordinary image or an Abstract art into a spectacular series of colorful twirl effects in Photoshop easily

This is a simple easy to follow Photoshop Tutorial to make a colorful Twirl Effect in Photoshop. Easy to follow steps, with which you can make a colorful picture that can be used as a background image, as an Icon, as a Logo, or as a Banner.

This Tutorial will show you how to achieve this. Our Final picture will look like this.

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colorful twirl effect in photoshop

Let’s get started to create colorful twirl effects in Photoshop

::: Step 1:ย  In Photoshop open a new document 1000px by 1000 px resolution at 72. You can choose your own size.

A square image gives a better result. Make sure that the color pallet is at Photoshop default that is foreground color Black and background to white.

::: Step 2: Now go to filter- Render โ€“ clouds. So you get something like this. (shown below)

render cloud effect

::: Step 3: Now again go to Filter โ€“ pixelate โ€“ mezzotint and select โ€œshort strokesโ€ from the drop-down menu, and you will get something like this.

colorful twirl effect in photoshop

::: Step 4: Now go to Filter Blur โ€“ Radial blur and apply Amount to 100, Blur method to โ€œzoomโ€ and quality to โ€œBestโ€ then click Ok. Apply this effect Twice, so that you get something like this.

abstract twirl effect in photoshop

::: Step 5: Next go to Filter โ€“ Distort โ€“ Twirl โ€“ set the angle to 120. and click OK So you get something like this.

twirl effect

::: Step 6:ย  It looks very boring at this stage.

Duplicate this layer by going to the layer pallet right-clicking and โ€œDuplicate Layerโ€. Now select the top layer that is your duplicated layer and set the Blending option to โ€œLightenโ€

::: Step 7: With your duplicate layer still selected go to filter โ€“ distort- Twirl โ€“ and this time set the angle to โ€“180 and click OK. So you get something like this.

colorful twirl effect in photoshop

::: Step 8: Now it looks good. Now to apply some color to these two layers to make it a colorful Twirl.

To do that, first, make sure that the duplicated layer is selected then go to Image โ€“ adjustment โ€“Hue/saturation. Make sure to check the โ€œColorizeโ€ option and play with the Hue and saturation slider to get the desired color of your choice

Do the same with the other layer also ( the original layer) make some contrasting colors to make it more colorful

colorful twirl effect in photoshop

::: Step 9:ย  This is what I ended up with. Beautiful twirl effect. It can be of any size with hundreds of different color combinations, just play around with the hue/saturation slider.

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Pro-Tip

You can also use any image preferably squire in shape and create a beautiful twirl effect in Photoshop. Just omit steps 1 to 3. Example

colorful twirl effect in photoshop